Non-communist Coalition Called For In Poland

WARSAW, POLAND — Prime Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak bowed to pressure from the opposition Solidarity movement Monday and said he was giving up his efforts to form a Communist-led government.

Kiszczak said he was handing the task to Roman Malinowski, the head of the Peasants' Party, a small group that has operated as a Communist satellite for more than 40 years but now is seeking more independence.

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is urging the Peasants' Party and another small party, the Democratic Party, to split from the Communists and join the opposition in a non-communist coalition. No such government has ruled in Eastern Europe since World War II.

The Peasants' Party parliamentary leader, Alexander Bentkowski, said the two small parties were close to agreement with Walesa on the terms of a coalition. He told reporters Solidarity would take the prime minister post and the Peasants' would take the foreign ministry, but the Communists would have the defense and interior ministries.

Walesa says Kiszczak is too discredited to lead the country because he played a prominent role with President Wojciech Jaruzelski in suppressing the union under martial law in 1981. The movement was legalized last April.

Kiszczak did not explicitly say he was resigning. He left open the possibility that he might resume his efforts to form a government if Malinowski failed or refused to take it up.

''A situation has emerged in which I see a chance for Roman Malinowski to form a new government in which there would be representatives of all forces in the parliament,'' Kiszczak said in a statement carried by the PAP news agency.

Kiszczak, appointed prime minister Aug. 2, has been unable to form a government because of Solidarity's refusal to take a junior role in a ''grand coalition'' dominated by the Communists.

The Peasants' Party and the Democratic Party, obedient to the Communists since the 1940s, have acquired a power-broker role because they control a combined total of 22 percent of the seats in parliament after elections in June.

The Communists have 38 percent and Solidarity has 35 percent of the seats. Both blocs need the support of the two small parties to be sure of a majority.

The Communist Party responded with alarm after Walesa proposed forming the government. On Friday, the Soviet Union warned against the destabilization of Poland and Europe.